Yankees Go Home! Twins Take Game Three of Series

Me and Hubby in Section 110

Wide-angled view from Section 110, Row 1

Nick Blackburn pitches a great game.

Kubel swings for the fences.  Homerun!

Tonight, May 27,  the Twins beat the Yankees, 8-2.   And I had the opportunity to witness it firsthand from terrific seats given to me by my former employer:  Row 1, Section 110.    So my view of the game was certainly much closer than my usual Section 320 seats.

It was a perfect warm weather night, so Hubby and I biked to the game.  We end up toting a lot of stuff into the ballpark, helmets, camera, bike bags, peanuts.  But it's worth it to avoid the traffic/parking snarls.   And the Twins treated us to a perfect evening.  Blackie did a fab job.  I'm actually starting to get more comfortable with his "go ahead and hit it" style of pitching.      With my new telephoto lens I attempted to capture him in action.     Our bullpen did a nice job too.   It was great to see Mijares come in and strike some guys out.  Let's hope he continues in that vein, because we could use him.

Of course the big hero of the game was Kubel.  I must admit that when I saw him in the lineup I wondered why Gardy didn't start Young.  Delmon's been doing pretty well in my opinion.   But Gardy stuck Kubel 7th in the batting order which I think may have been a good move.  Now he may not admit it, but I think the pressure to hit big is a little more intense when you're higher in the batting order.       But lo and behold Kube came out and hit a homer... TWICE.   Lots of RBI's to go along with them.

I was determined to take a lot of photos at this game since we had such good seats.  What I quickly realized was that we have a lot of left-handed batters.  I suppose I should have already known that, but when I kept seeing everyone's back in my viewfinder, it became much more real.    Cuddy and Hardy were the only face forward batters.    If a lefty swung really hard though, he turned his profile in my camera's direction.      I took about a million pics!

Other news.  You CAN buy cotton candy at the park.  Didn't start seeing it until the last game and to celebrate our lead, I bought some pink stuff.  Ate it all.  Diet be damned.